https://shashankjoshi.dev/Recent content in Home on Shashank JoshiHugoen-usTue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://shashankjoshi.dev/posts/vortexkv/Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://shashankjoshi.dev/posts/vortexkv/How a specialized, shared-nothing KV store hits 9.9M pipelined GETs/sec — 3.7× faster than Dragonfly — and the engineering decisions behind it.https://shashankjoshi.dev/about/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://shashankjoshi.dev/about/<p>I&rsquo;m Shashank Joshi, a C++ engineer with 5 years of experience building performance-sensitive systems.</p> <p>I like working close to the metal — data structures, cache behaviour, lock-free concurrency, and squeezing throughput out of multi-core machines. The posts on this site walk through projects I&rsquo;ve built from scratch and the decisions behind them. A good place to start is <a href="https://shashankjoshi.dev/posts/vortexkv/">VortexKV</a>, a multithreaded key-value store I built that outperforms Dragonfly on throughput.</p> <p>I&rsquo;m based in India (IST) and open to remote C++ roles. The best way to reach me is by email at <strong><a href="mailto:shashankjoshi2602@gmail.com">shashankjoshi2602@gmail.com</a></strong>, or on <a href="https://github.com/shashank2602">GitHub</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/shashank26/">LinkedIn</a>.</p>